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Metrowest Interfaith
Hospitality Network
A Community
Response for Homeless Families
The
Metrowest Interfaith Hospitality Network of
Massachusetts
is a cooperative, interfaith partnership
offering hope to homeless families with children through safe transitional
shelter, meals and supportive case management as they seek permanent
housing.
The Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN), formed in
New
Jersey
in 1986 and now identified as
Family Promise, is a successful community response to homelessness.
IHN enables religious groups to unite hearts and hands to provide
shelter, meals and compassionate assistance for homeless families.
By unities thirteen congregations, plus day centers and social
service agencies, an IHN program can do what individuals alone cannot.
When our Metrowest Interfaith Hospitality Network (MIHN) opens in
September,
2008, local social service agencies will screen guests and refer
appropriate families with children to us through our MIHN Director.
Guests, depending on their needs, will use our
Day
Center
in
Natick
from
8 am
to
5
pm
to shower, care for pre-school children, and seek housing and employment
with assistance from our Director. Guests
will return via our MIHN van to one of our host congregations in the early
evening, including The Federated Church of Ashland, where they will
receive meals, companionship and overnight accommodations.
The Metrowest Interfaith Hospitality Network is the fourth network in Massachusetts,
joining networks in
Worcester,
Southbridge/Sturbridge and Leominster/Fitchburg.
We
will host our first IHN guests the week of December 14, 2008.
To learn more about this exciting program and the families that are
helped, please click here.
Please
click here
to find out more about the program and ways that you
can help!
For more information or to volunteer, please contact Cheri
Vallone,
Federated Church of Ashland Coordinator or at (508) 881.3515.
Additional details and updates about the Metrowest Interfaith Hospitality Network can
be found here.
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